Wednesday, September 23, 2009

What a Day!!

Ok so we've been a little busy the last few weeks and I think we are losing it haha but no worries it should all settle down soon.

This morning I woke up in the hotel, it was our last night staying there and tonight we are officially staying in our new house!! But what a day, so I woke up and Brandon had already gone to work, I had to drop the girls off at daycare and be at a class for work at 8 am. When I woke up I realized Brandon had packed up and taken pretty much everything out of the hotel room and in his car, which is really nice he was just trying to help however he took the shampoo and conditioner, my tooth brush, hair brush, razor, and all the diapers except for 2. Now I realize that he is used to me not getting up everyday and getting ready but come on I need a few things!! :) I was rushing around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to get ready, luckily the hotel carries a few extra items for those forgetful travelers.......

Now its off to daycare and the first thing when I walk in the door is Harper's teacher asking if I knew what made Harper happy because they are having a hard time with her......hmmm what makes Harper happy, I said your guess is as good as mine!! Harper is actually a very Happy child when your spoiling her with attention and holding her, however at daycare they have to many kids to give her the attention Harper thinks she needs!! So I pray that she starts getting used to it.

Next its off to my class which I believe is at Covenant Hospital in Waterloo, I pull into the parking lot about 7:50 thinking yeah I'm on time!! I look at the sheet to see which conference room the class is located at and read Learning center on the south side of Allen Hospital.......CRAP!!! Allen is all the way across town on the north side of the river and I've never been there in my life, and I'm scared to death of that side of Waterloo......so I type it quick into my GPS and I'm on my way speeding through Waterloo (I mean of course I went the speed limit (I never speed)). I get to Allen and find that there is like 6 different entrances and of course the first entrance wasn't the right one, it was back into my car to the other parking lot and in to the class at 8:15.....grrr I hate being late for stuff like this!!! Luckily the instructor is a paramedic I work with at Sartori ER and she was very understanding.

So now on with the class, everything is going well until I corrected my Instructor for PALS (Pediatric Advance Life Support) ummm I don't think I would want her doing CPR on my child....luckily she doesn't work on the floor and she's just a manager (I don't think they get out of the office much) She was in charge of my station for practice of PALS and she was telling us something that was completely wrong and I tried to be nice correcting her but she didn't believe me and then I think she felt pretty stupid. Next they decided to cut lunch to 45 minutes instead of an hour....Which I would have been fine with but I needed to run over to daycare check on Harper and drop off some teething medicine (its worth a shot to calm her down). So I ran over to daycare, checked out of the hotel and back to class with no lunch :(

So you would think my day would end there but it didn't......I tried to call Brandon to see if he had the key to the house and if the spare key was left in the "secret hiding spot". He didn't call back until I was already 3/4 of the way to his office (which is out of the way). Then he tells me that yes the key is in the "hiding spot" so I thought ok good I wont stop by his office then and I will just head to the house.....do you think the key was there NOPE!! GRRR I would have probably cried except I found that one of the other doors was left unlocked.......YEAH!!

Well that was crazy enough for the day then the night went pretty smooth unpacking more boxes and our friends (the people that we bought the house from) brought over an amazing meal!!! Ahhh it was so nice to not have to cook, last night the neighbors across the street made us a really good meal too!!! Its such a nice community here and I am really excited to say we have a place to call home.

Ok a short blurp about the girls.....Teagan is talking more than ever and forming sentences!!! She got bit today at daycare :( and she screams every time I drop her off, it just kills me. She loves her new house and her friend Maleah :).
Harper continues to spit up daily and is now sitting up on her own and trying to crawl or something haha she gets to where she wants to go by getting up on her knees, digging her head into the ground and rolling :) I should really get that on camera!!! I think she thinks she's a worm.

I will post pictures of the new place soon, we are trying to get some of the boxes out of the way so I can take pictures :)

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Our New Home


We officially bought our first acreage and we are moving in like 1 1/2 weeks!!! Luckily Brandon's job will be packing us and moving us so I don't have a whole lot to prepare. We were very blessed in finding this house and we made some great friends through the process. It started with facebook, while some may say that the internet is a bad thing in this case it was definitely a God thing. I made a connection through a friend of my sisters who lives in Cedar Falls, she knew the Wessels and that they were selling their acreage just south of Parkersburg. And so that's how it all began. The Wessels have 2 little girls that are around the same age as Teagan and Harper and we went to play with them on Monday when we made an offer on the house. I think the girls and us have made some great friends!!! We are very excited to get settled down and out of the hotel. Here is a picture of our new home.......

Sorry this is a short update but We have been super busy between starting new jobs, daycare, and living out of hotel. I hope things slow down soon!!!